I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.